Bug#290549: Rescue-System missing
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: RC1, downloaded with jigdo in October 2004
uname -a: unknown
Date: 13.1.2005 (was an old image, I know)
Method: Booting by CD
Machine: Compaq desktop
Processor: P3
Memory: 512M
Root Device: /dev/hda3
Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1 = /boot, /dev/hda2 = swap, /dev/hda3 = /
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [ O]
Configure network HW: [O ]
Config network: [ O]
Detect CD: [ O]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Detect hard drives: [ O]
Partition hard drives: [ O]
Create file systems: [ O]
Mount partitions: [ O]
Install base system: [O ]
Install boot loader: [ E]
Reboot: [ O]
Comments/Problems:
Installation on a new system worked fine.
But there are some things, I hardly missed:
1. On a installed system it is not possible, to create or repair the
bootloader.
Mounting, and repartitioning went fine, but when I tried to install the new
bootloader (either grub or lilo), it wanted to install basic libs, packages
etc. ansd warned me, that it might crash. I said, o.k., do it still, and he
began to overwrite the libs etc. and then hook up, because of a crash and
dependencies.
I tried hard, but there was no way, to reinstall the bootloader with the
installation CDs.
To reinstall teh bootloader, I used teh CDs from Jan 2003 (woody), where there
is the opportunity, to choose an per example "rescbf24"-kernel to boot the
system.
Now my question:
Will there be a rescue-system at the coming installation-CDs in the future ?
I painfully miss it, because I often had to use old ones for easy rescueing a
died system.
Best regards and thank you very much for your work in the past and
the future !!
Hans-J. Ullrich
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